Metallic spring-mattress.



A. S. MEADOFF.

METALLIC SPRING MATTRESS.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 12. 1917- 1,261,259., Patented Apr. 2, 1918.

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METALLIC SPRING-MATTRESS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. a, rare.

Application filed October 12, 1917. Serial No. 196,114. I i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM S. MEADOFF, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new .and useful Improvements in Metallic Spring-Mattresses, of which the following is a specification.

The invention pertains to metallic spring fabrics for use on bedsteads for supporting the usual hair or other soft mattress, and it consists in the novel features and structure hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims. The spring of my invention comprises a main carrying frame of usual or any suitable type and a fabric composed of interengaging links of special outline connected by coiled springs with the end bars of said frame and at its side edges with bars or stays which are connected at their ends by coiled springs with the aforesaid end bars, the structure as a whole beinv complete in itself and adapted to be handled as a unit and applied to or removed fromthe customary bedstead. One of the essential objects of my inventionis to provide a fabric whose links may be readil constructed and assembled and have an e cient yielding1 action due to their particular shape. ach link is approximately of triangular outline, having an end portion formed with an eye and converging side members at whose ends are formed hooks, the hooks of one row of links being adapted to engage the eyes of the adjacent row of links. The links are in parallel transverse rows and also in parallel longitudinal rows,

and the fabric composed of. the said links at its side edges is linked to appropriate stay-rods or bars to add rigidity to the side edgeportions of the fabric and which stayrods or bars are yieldingbecause of their connection by means of coiled. springs with the end bars or members of the main carrying frame. 1

The invention will be fully understood from the detailed description hereinafter presented, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a top view, partly broken away, of a spring constructed in accordance with and embodying the invention,

Fig.2 is a corresponding view of one corner portion of the spring, shown as having parallel stay-rods at its side edge in lieu form and construction and well understood in this art. An example of such'frame is shown in my application for Letters Patent No. 10,810 filed July 19, 1915 as a renewal of my original application No. 819,318.

The fabric of my invention is composed of a connected series of transverse rows of links formed of wire and one of which is indicated as 12 in Fig. 3. The links 12 all correspond with one another, and each link is of triangular outline and in one piece of wire and formed with a base member 13 and converging side member 14:, both of which at their outer meeting ends are formed with hooks 15. The base member 14 at its middle portion is formed with an outwardly proecting loop constituting an eye 16. The links 12 are all interengaged in the formation of the fabric, and the method of interengaging the links 12 is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. The hooks 15 of one transverse series of links 12 are all engaged with the eyes 16 of the adjacent transverse series of links 12, and each link 12 of each transverse series of links has its side members 14 passed through the links at each side thereof so that at the base ends of each side member l lof each link said link becomes interlocked or interengaged with the base ends of the side members of the links at both sides thereof, whereby the links in one transverse series of links become interlocked with each other, and the eyes 16 are interlocked with the hooks 15 of the links of the adj acenttransverse series, this arrangement following throughout the fabric and resulting in all of the links 12 being interlocked with each is engaged at its hooks 15 with the eye 16 of the link immediately suceeding it longitudinally, and also that transversely considered the left hand side member 14 of each link is interlocked with the right hand side member of the link 12 at the left thereof, and that the right hand member 141 of each link is interlocked with the left hand side of the link at the right thereof. The side members 14 of each link being separable at their outer or hook ends 15 may be slipped through the adjacent links sothat said side members may become, at their base ends, interengaged with side adjacent links. fill of the links 12 are of triangular shape and hingedly connected together and have a high degree of elliciency in the formation of a spring fabric for a bedstead, said fabric being adapted tosupport the usual hair or other mattress provided for bedsteads. The row of links 12 at one endof the fabric are, byaneans of their hooks 15, connected with helical springs 17 of usual character which are connected with one end 10 .ofthe main supporting frame, andtlie row of links 12 at the other-end of the fabric have their eyes 16 connected withhelical springs 18 of known character, which are hooked into holes. formed in the other end 10 of the main carrying frame, as will be clearly understood on reference to Fig. 1.

.The side edges of the main fabric composed of the links 12 must be sustained in a substantial manner, and in Figs, 1 and 2 1. illustrate two different means for. finishing off theedges of the fabric. 111 the construction shown in Fig. 1 I extend a stay rod, of wire or the like, 19 along through the left hand links 12 and connect the same by helical springs 20 with the end bars 10 of. the rigid supporting frame, this red 20 being inter-engaged with the angular ELC1]Oll1- ing portions of the outer sides 14 and base memberil3 of the several links 12, and preferably at the intermediate points between each two transverse rows of links, 12 1, connect the rod 19 by short wire links 21. with .a sheet metal longitudinal frame 22.0f the character shown in my aforesaid application for Letters Patent, which frame 22 at;

its ends is connected by helical springs 23 with the end bars 10 of the main rigid sup-.

porting frame. The outer portion of the frame 22 is rounded and tubular and at its lnner edges said frame is flat and apertured to receive the links 21. 1n the construction shown 111 Fig. 2 1

utilize the same rod 19 that 1 have shown in Fig. 1, but 1 connect said rod 19 by a series of links 2 l.w1th a corresponding rod, 25 which extends lengthwise of the spring and is connected by helical. springs 26 with the end bars 10 of the main supporting frame. In the construction shown in Fig. 21 substitute the rod 25,.for the frame 22 illustrated in Fig. 1, butgother'wise the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2 are alike.

The mam features of my lnvention reside in the se 'ies of triangular-shaped links 12 connected in transverse and longitudinal rows, as shown, in connection with the helical springs 17, 18 for the ends of the fabric and suitable stay rods or the like for the side edges of the fabric. The links 12 admit of modification in outline, as indicated in Fig. at, which illustrates a triangularly shaped link having sides 41 which are of greater length than the base member 40, the link shown inF el being otherwise the same as the links represented in Figs l, 2 and 3. The longer link, such as shown in -Fig, 4-, is a very desirable form of link and in some instances preferred over the equilateral form of link shown in Fig.3.

What 1 claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. A bed-spring of the characterdescribed, comprising a rigid carrying frame, coiled springs connected with the end members thereof and a fabricfconnected with the in nor ends of said springs, said fabric comprishooks engaging the eyes of the links in the next adjacent transverse rowof links.

2. A bed-spring of the characterdescribed, comprising a rigid carrying frame,'coiled springs connected with the end members thereof, side-stays connected by outer of said coiled springs with the end members of said frame, and a fabric connected with the inner ends of the other of said coiled springs and comprising transverse and longitudinal rowsof links of triangular outline inter-engaged in series with one another at their sides in the transverse rows thereof, the base members of said links being formed with eyes, and the converging sides of said links having hooks engaging the eyes of the links in the next adjacent transverserow of links, said side-stays being threaded through the angular outer edges of the side links of said fabric. I f

3. A bed-spring ofthe character described,

comprising a rigid carrying frame, coiled springs connected with the end members thereof, plural parallel side-stays connected by the outer of said coiled springs with the end members of said frameand being linked together, and a fabric connected with the inner ends ofthe other of said coiledsprings and comprisingtransverse and longitudinal rows of links of triangular outline interengaged in series with one another at their sides'in the transverse rows thereof, the base ,members of said links being formed with eyes and the converging sides ofsaid links having hooks engaging the eyes of the links in the next adjacent transverse row of links,

ing transverse and longitudinal rows of. links of triangular outhneinterengaged 1n one of said side-stays at each side of the fabric being threaded through the angular outer edges of the outer side links of said fabric.

4. A bed-spring of the character described, comprising a rigid carrying frame, coiled springs connected With the end members thereof, and a fabric connected With the inner ends of said springs, said fabric comprising transverse and longitudinal rows of corresponding links of triangular outline connected With one another in series in the transverse rows thereof at their angular base corners, the base members of said links being formed With eyes and the converging sides of said links having hooks engaging the eyes of the links in the next adjacent transverse row of links.

5. A bed-spring of the character described, comprising a rigid carrying frame, coiled springs connected With the end members thereof, side stays connected by outer of said coiled springs with the end members of said Copies of this frame, and a fabric connected With the inner ends of the other of said coiled springs and comprising transverse and longitudinal rows of corresponding links of triangular outline connected With one another in series in the transverse rows thereof at their angu- ABRAHAM S. MEADOFF.

W'itnesses:

ARTHUR MARION, CHAS. O. GILL.

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